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...members of a constituent assembly gathered to write a constitution to replace the dictatorial charter used by deposed Strongman Juan Perón. In a Buenos Aires dance hall, Peronista and anti-Peronista labor leaders fought for control of the all-embracing General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.). President Pedro Aramburu, the uncompromising general who heads the provisional regime, spurred them on with urgent warnings. "While the world marches rapidly ahead," he said, in one of a series of speeches, "we continue mentally and materially living 30 years behind the times...
...Slipping Backward." Aramburu scornfully blamed Perón's dizzy, spendthrift economic policy. "If Argentina today had the foreign trade it had in 1943," said Aramburu, "it would be the first country of South America." Instead, workers continue to demand wage hikes without boosting productivity, creating a "vicious circle" of rising prices. Unlike Brazil, which is developing "great industries with modern techniques and foreign financial aid." too many Argentines still spout "wornout slogans about nationalism, about the oligarchs, about statism. We are slipping backwards every...
...will was none too evident. Instead of settling down to work on the constitutional reforms-mostly curbs on the executive power, designed to prevent another Perón-the delegates erupted in squabbles. The Intransigent Radicals, hot after the Peronista vote, provided a casebook example of the demagoguery that Aramburu deplored by denouncing the assembly's legality. The chairman clamped down on the tirade, and the 77-man Intransigent bloc stormed out of the hall. And the 75-man bloc of the People's Radicals were too split among themselves to assume their hoped-for role of leadership...
President Pedro Aramburu, the glum, straightforward general who runs Argentina, last week put his plans for rebuilding his country's democracy to the test of elections-and won, but precariously. The government squeaked through to victory in balloting for an assembly that will rewrite the constitution inherited from Dictator Juan Perón, who was overthrown by Aramburu and his fellow officers. Assembly line-up in favor of the constitutional reforms...
...number themselves among the Peron-controlled hard core. If they yield to Frondizi's frantic wooing, he will gain control of the assembly and defeat constitutional reform, which will help him toward his eventual goal: the presidential office with all its powers intact. Hopefully for the Aramburu program, these voters have been drifting over to Frondizi in smaller numbers than he expected. On the other hand, if the halfhearted ex-Peronistas adopt the hard core's self-defeating plan to cast blank ballots, they may paradoxically help Aramburu by letting a pro-reform coalition get balance-of-power...